Sightings Archive

Manor Fields Park: Reed Bunting - 1 - male still singing ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - 5-6 singing ; Song Thrush - 4+ - inc a pair nest building ; Robin - 4+ - 2 pairs at least ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - over north together at 07:15 ; Jackdaw - 3 - flew over. ; Linnet - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Greenfinch - 3+ - inc 2 displaying males ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Mallard - 2 - a pair on top pond

Middleton Moor: Dunlin - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Shelduck - 2 - Pair ; Wheatear - 1 - Male on path from track towards hide ; Red Kite - 1 - Drifted slowly south, mobbed by lapwings

Midhope Moor: 319 - 3 ; Merlin - 1 - Male, flew north ; Curlew - 5+ - Display flights ; Stonechat - Pair - Song + nest building ; Skylark - 4+ - singing ; Lapwing - 2 ; Starling - 27 - flew NW ; Meadow Pipit - 15+ - Display ; Red Kite - 1 - Drifted NW towards Langsett. ; Snipe - 1+ - chipping ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stock Dove - 13 - 7+6 N

Orgreave lakes: Reed Bunting - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 - Pair collecting nest lining.

R Derwent, Leadmill Bridge to Grindleford: Dipper - 5 ; Mandarin - 17 - 11m, 6f

Rawmarsh: Lapwing - 1 - E @ 0815hrs ; Common Buzzard - 02-Mar - one over calling, dived sharply away to N @ 1225hrs; 2 up together @ 1315hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - E @ 1353hrs ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - singing from roof of Earl Grey PH

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1+ - 2nd egg laid at St George'a this p.m.

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 48 ; Tufted Duck - 41 ; Shoveler - 6(4m) ; Goldeneye - 2f ; Gadwall - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Brambling - 1 - In Ash Tree off dam ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Blackcap - 1m ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Blackbird - 10 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Skylark - 6+ ; Collared Dove - 2 ; House Sparrow - 10

West Nab: Little Owl - 2 - pair sat together on stone wall. ; Reed Bunting - 2 - pair sat on fence.

Westend: Fieldfare - c.30 - Flying into conifer plantation between Westend and Ditch Clough

Westend Valley: Canada Goose - 1 - Quite far up the river

Wharncliffe Side: Blue Tit - 2+ - carrying nest material to a birdbox in observers garden

Aldwarke: Raven - 1+ - one returned to Liberty from SW @ 0708hrs, carrying food(?); same or another left SW following railway @ 0727hrs & returned from SW @ 0743hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1 - male sat on water tower with occasional sorties over complex

Aston: Red Kite - 1 - drifting low over M1 Junc31 towards Aston at 08:20

Birley Edge: Common Buzzard - 3 - Soaring together ; Redwing - 10

Brownhills Lane: Lapwing - 15 - including several in display/ territorial flights ; Redshank - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - pair feeding in fields ; Curlew - 10

Burbage Valley: Kestrel - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 12 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Wren - 3

Callow Bank: Curlew - 3 - alarming at passing raptor

Carhead Rocks: 319 - 2

Deepcar: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Flew across Stocksbridge by-pass

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male drumming in oak

Green Moor: Raven - 1

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 1 - Observer's garden ; Starling - 3 - Gathering nesting material ; Carrion Crow - 2 - Gathering twigs

Hay Dale: Kestrel - 1

High Green: Greenfinch - 1 - Song/display flight

Longshaw: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Very vocal / loud rattle ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Mandarin - 3

Middleton Moor: Fieldfare - 62 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Lapwing - 14 ; 320 - 9 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; 321 - 1